Six Five Connected with Diana Blass: Navigating the AI Era with HPE's Infrastructure Innovations

Ten years after becoming a standalone company, HPE has quietly built one of the most comprehensive infrastructure portfolios fit for the AI era. At HPE Discover 2025, Diana Blass got an up-close look at how it all comes together – let’s get Connected:

Step inside the demos transforming how enterprises deploy and scale AI. Watch AI agents like “Krista” control physical robots. See how cruise lines like Carnival benefit from self-managing networks, and how fast-food operations use real-time computer vision—powered by HPE infrastructure and partner software like Vaidio—to keep orders accurate. On the factory floor, discover how HPE NonStop ensures car production never goes down, as AI is sequencing custom builds in real time. And behind it all: AI factories built with NVIDIA, designed to bring compute, storage, and data control under one scalable, intelligent roof.

From sovereign AI to smart stadiums, it’s a front-row look at how HPE is scaling intelligence across industries—and why it may be one of the most quietly pivotal players in the AI infrastructure race.

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Diana Blass: At HPE Discover Las Vegas 2025, we're seeing how AI is supercharging emerging technologies like supercomputers.

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Dr. Ben Bennett: You can take a history of X rays and you can say at this point in time we started to see cancer appear.

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Diana Blass: From training supercomputers to spot cancer in any image to networking that brings connectivity everywhere, even in a fish tank.

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Andrew Fox: Indeed, this is an access point. It provides a wireless network and as you can see, it doesn't mind moisture.

Diana Blass: AI is pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

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Florian Reinhold: We are scanning the patients creating a kind of twinning of the information of the patients.

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Diana Blass: Hospitals using AI to turn patient data into precise personalized therapies.

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Antonio Neri: AI is now making your ambitions a reality.

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Diana Blass: But enabling that across all industries isn't easy.

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Antonio Neri: Much of today's infrastructure is made up of layers of legacy IT. At the same time, growing data sovereignty regulatory requirements are forcing you to rethink.

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Over the past decade, HPE made bold moves, betting on as a service with Greenlake, doubling down on supercomputing with Cray and now expanding its reach through Juniper for AI driven driven networking. Each step built towards this moment, positioning HPE to deliver the infrastructure modern enterprises need in the AI era. Networking, hybrid, cloud and AI.

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Diana Blass: A lot of vendors say they can take on those challenges. So what's HPE's story? Over the past decade, HPE made bold moves, betting on as a service with Greenlake, doubling down on supercomputing with Cray and now expanding its reach through Juniper for AI driven networking. Each step built towards this moment, positioning HPE to deliver the infrastructure modern enterprises need in the AI era. Networking, hybrid, cloud and AI.

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Antonio Neri : And our mission has never been more important as we stand at the edge of a new renaissance.

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Diana Blass: At HPE Discover, that mission came to life with new announcements designed to turn vision into reality. But we heard about self managing networks powered by agentic AI. AI factories co developed with Nvidia for fast turnkey development. Greenlake Intelligence to manage costs and operations with autonomous agents and AI optimized storage and next gen servers for intensive workloads. It's a system wide approach and soon many of these components will power Miami Freedom park, the future home of Inter.

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Antonio Neri: Miami CF with HP Aruba networking visitors will have faster, more reliable connectivity throughout the park. And with our HPE Greenlake cloud NAI solutions, Inter Miami can track player performance, connect with fans in new ways and run smarter operations.

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Diana Blass: HPE strategy is already in motion. Let's head to the show floor for a deeper look. AI is showing up in places you'd never expect, from the baseball field to inside a fish tank. But powering that leap takes more than algorithms. It takes infrastructure.

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Antonio Neri: Networking is the core foundation of a modern IT architecture.

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Diana Blass: Obviously it's not just fish tanks that we're showcasing the possibilities here.

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Andrew Fox: No. So we're showcasing and we're building networks for customers that are everywhere.

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Diana Blass: Customers like Carnival Cruise who rely on HPE Aruba for shipwide connectivity at sea, enabling personalized guest experiences and real time operational insights for the crew.

Andrew Fox: So you know the days of shipping all your data back to the data center and then carefully working through that and making decisions based on that data, those days have gone. So if you can make a quick decision and then take action in real time at the speed of business, if you like, that is a great thing for customers.

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Diana Blass: But connectivity is just the beginning. At the Vaidio demo, we saw how HPE proliant servers bring AI to the edge with GPU acceleration and low latency processing that powers real time computer vision. And luckily, just in time for lunch.

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Diana Blass: Why are there hamburgers here?

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Douglas Hammer: This is a game where Vaidio is a vision AI software and it's letting you know whether you're filling the orders correctly. So Vidia works on live video streams. Software is running on the server that enables us to convert, essentially convert video into data. An Nvidia GPU on the back end for what we call computer vision inferencing. We can find lost children, we can make sure that you're fulfilling orders in your fast food restaurant properly. Just about anything that a camera can see, we can run it through Vaidio and improve the outcome.

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Diana Blass: And when downtime isn't an option, HPE Nonstop takes the lead. Like in car manufacturing.

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Peter Grendel: You know when you have a customer order, you order the car. I ordered a car and somebody else ordered a car. This is a sequence.

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Diana Blass: Abbott plus developed the AI software to manage a car's production sequence. It uses HPE Nonstop, an always-on compute platform that combines purpose-built servers and software.

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Peter Grendel: So when you have a complex car like this one, with a sunroof, with fully equipped things like the dashboard here, there could be restrictions that you cannot build two cars in a row of this complexity. And for this technology we now use AI technology.

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Diana Blass: And you won't believe how the AI software is trained.

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Peter Grendel: We use these small guys to work on AI technologies because the small boys have their own brain taking their own decisions. They play in a team of five in a League playing soccer. And we use this to train our algorithm and the AI technology for planning and sequencing vehicles.

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Diana Blass: These use cases are so impressive. But back to our original question, how do we scale them? That's where HPE's AI factories come in. They're pre integrated systems that combine compute, storage and data control to help enterprises deploy and scale AI quickly.

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Linda Coule: We have announced three different AI factories. Private cloud AI, our turnkey AI factory. You can just plug in and start inferencing within a couple of days, as long as you upload specific software or large language models. So the Sovereign AI factory is focusing more on customers that need a private and secure environment. And the last one was an AI factory at scale, which is essentially similar to the turnkey factory. But it's for those enterprises that have been tinkering with technology for a while now. They do have some internal skills and they want to just ramp up their knowledge and go quicker and move a lot faster towards the future.

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Diana Blass: And through HPE's Unleash AI ecosystem, HPE now delivers more than 75 use cases from agentic AI in smart cities to manufacturing and cybersecurity. Now let's talk about what's next. Agentic AI communicating with physical AI.

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Agentic AI: Hi there, I'm kinda Krista.

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Daniel Sherrill: So Krista has been trained on everything about Discover. She knows every demo that's on the showcase floor and she has a little fun robot that you can play with.

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Diana Blass: You can't beat that. I mean I did, I told you I was a catcher that one time.That one time was when I was 8 years old. But let's move on. So we just watched how Krista communicated with this robot to throw a ball.

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Daniel Sherrill: So two different systems talking together. Right. But we had to make sure that there's a human in the loop. So we're using Nvidia Omniverse and Nvidia Isaac to do the digital twin simulation. And then she sends a call back to the robot to perform the action. But before the robot can take any action, we must have a human in the loop.Right.

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Daniel Sherrill: So we have an agentic AI and a physical AI. We want to make sure the human's in the loop, to make sure that we are in control of what that physical AI robot does.

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Diana Blass: Now imagine an agent like Krista, but trained to assist in surgery. It requires AI that confuses speech, vision, movement and real time decision making. All trained on massive high stake data sets. That's where HPE's advancements in supercomputers come into play.

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Dr. Ben Bennett: So El Capitan is the world's fastest supercomputer. What we have here is a sort of a mock up of it. This is about 5% of El Capitan.

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Diana Blass: Ideal for large research institutions that need to fine tune AI models.

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Dr. Ben Bennett: So within the supercomputing space, we have been doing things like machine learning and computational steering for years, 30 odd years, where we look at patterns, we look at the results to help steer work and to help us do a better job of solving the right questions and also getting and extracting answers from data. One of the biggest problems we have is that there's so much data out there. How do you extract information, how do you extract insight from this data? And that's where artificial intelligence can help us.

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Diana Blass: It's the kind of infrastructure that'll power breakthroughs at places like St. Jude's Children's Hospital.

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Antonio Neri: St. Jude has partnered with HP on the journey to use AI in high performance computing to unlock new discoveries from a data set of over 60 years of groundbreaking research.

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Dr. Ben Bennett: The data that comes out of these things is much bigger, much more relevant, and has much more impact on humans.

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Diana Blass: So AI might be the engine, but the infrastructure that scales it, that's the real battleground now. And HPE is among the companies laying the tracks. Stay tuned as we follow where those tracks lead, here in Connected! Till next time, I'm Diana Blass.

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Peter Grendel: There you go.: Might be distracting him a little bit.

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